ART WARS Sept. 1, 2003:
Sir Terry Frost Dies
A noted English abstract painter died at 87 on Monday, September 1. From a memorial essay on Sir Terry Frost, born in 1915, in The Daily Telegraph:
“He was educated at Leamington Spa Central School where he edited the art magazine, but left at 15 to work….” His first jobs included, the Telegraph says, painting “the red, white and blue targets on to fighter planes.”
The “target” the Telegraph refers to
is known as the Royal Air Force Roundel.
It may indeed have functioned as a target, but it was originally intended only as a distinctive identifying mark.
Some of Frost’s later work may be viewed at the British Government Art Collection. For some of Frost’s work more closely related to his early “target” theme, see the Badcock’s Gallery site.
An example:
For related religious
and cinematic material, see
Pilate, Truth, and Friday the Thirteenth,
a meditation for Good Friday of 2001,
a meditation for Friday the Thirteenth
of September, 2002,
and
from the day Frost died, which concludes
with links related to the religious symbol of
2001:
